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    Slave to Connection

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    whatever technological device we have in our possession is due to our need to connect. Sherry Turkle‚ in her article “The Flight From Conversation”‚ makes the following observation on this issue: “We expect more from technology and less from one another”. The increased emphasis on connection rather than conversation has caused a sense of dependency on the technology that connects us. In the words of Turkle‚ “I share‚ therefore I am”‚ portrays that we have become reliant on technology to define who

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    Who Am We

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    that they do not know and can not see? In Sherry Turkle’s article “Who Are We‚” Turkle talks about all of the benefits of using MUDs‚ such as building the gamer’s self-confidence‚ building their self-esteem‚ and allowing the gamer to be themselves. However‚ do these MUDs actually accomplish what Turkle claims in her article? Do her so called benefits work in the real world? In her article “Who Am We”‚ Sherry Turkle states that playing multiple MUDs can be beneficial in building self- confidence

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    Sherry Turle Technology

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    Sherry Turkle explains why our electron devices have a bad effect on our lives and affect the human relationship. She stated that technology is a way we alter our emotions because our technologies are close to our heart‚ it is always with us twenty-four seven. These effects ourselves from social and mental life. First‚ we have a challenging time engaging in conversations‚ especially when we work or at school. For example‚ Ellen and her grandmother were having a Skype call and Ellen felt her grandmother

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    watching a movie could be spent reading a book; expanding one’s vocabulary. Becoming more intelligent is definitely more beneficial in the long run. The reason is evident “adults use tethering technologies during what most of us think of as down time…” (Turkle 129). Although many argue that one can learn from the internet‚ it has been proven that the information is not retained by the individual. Spending time listening to a lecture and collaborating with others will instill the information in the brain

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    Connected and alone

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    devices we hold in our hands. They are our companions‚ devices that are always with us and which we depend on to keep us connected. MIT professor and psychologist Sherry Turkle states that these devices have come to be what she calls a “phantom limb” wherein we always feel they are going off‚ even when they are not on us. As Turkle explains‚ “It is as though we use them as spare parts to support our increasingly fragile selves‚” and we have subjected ourselves to them. We purposely avoid real human-to-human

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    Harry Harlow conducted the concept for the adaption theory by using evidence of how infant monkeys reacting to two mothers. The infant monkeys were to experience the science of love‚ where there were two types of “surrogate” mothers created by Harlow. He first separated the baby monkeys from their mothers in the first couple months of birth and designed two new mothers for the monkeys. One other was made from bare wire but it was equipped with dispense milk and the other mother was covered in soft

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    conversation. Sherry Turkle has explored the disturbing future where all we need are A.I.’s to feel okay‚ to live. She explains that if we stop having face to face conversations our ability to feel empathy will be destroyed because texts and digital interaction can only convey so much. Texting erases all the tones and depth present in a face to face conversation and with the simple questions and even simpler responses they don’t disclose anything anymore. Thus we’ve become

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    Reality has changed over time and that now there is a new meaning for the new things emerged. The use of technology has increased rapidly as time has gone by.  In “Growing Up Tethered”‚ Turkle proves that the young generation need to be connected at all times by relying on their phones a lot Turkle mostly describes by pathos to persuade to feel in the certain emotion. For example‚ she says “I’ll pull up my friend…uh‚ my phone. Julia’s language slips tellingly. When Julia thinks about strong feelings

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    Technologies Impact

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    changing. With the new technology how we communicate has been affected the most I feel. Before modern technology you communicated using pen and paper and were delivered by horseback‚ then the telegraph came along and it sped everything up. Alison Gopnik explained this in her article “Diagnosing the Digital Revolution” when she said‚ “Information had always traveled at the speed of a fast horse; suddenly it traveled at the speed of electricity‚ from 10 miles an hour to millions”. The telegraph‚ although

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    Cited: Lam‚ Andrew. "I Tweet‚ Therefore I Am". Reading Culture: Contexts for Critical Reading and Writing. Ed. Diana George and John Trimbur. New Jersey: Pearson Education‚ Inc.‚ 2012 Print. Turkle‚ Sherry. "How Computers Change The Way We Think". The Writer ’s Presence. Ed. Donald McQuade and Robert Atwan. 7th ed. Boston: Bedford/St.Martin ’s‚ 2012. Print.

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